Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ Pops In Limited Opening That’s Best In Months, In Top Two For Year – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comColumbia Pictures’ Saturday Night from Jason Reitman debuted at $265k, a great $53k per theater that’s the second-best limited opening of the year, and the best since June when Kinds Of Kindness also opened in 5 theaters (to a $75k PTA).
It’s been a long a slightly dower wait for something to pop. Saturday Night made $108K on Friday, $88K on Saturday and a projected $69K on Sunday in LA (AMC Century City, AMC The Grove, AMC Burbank) and New York (AMC Lincoln Square, Alamo Brooklyn).
Expands Oct. 4 before opening wide on Oct 11 and looks well set up for a nice theatrical run with strong reviews and word of mouth since premiering at Telluride and Toronto.
Saturday Night is the true, and real time, story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live at 11:30 pm on October 11, 1975.
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